As the cryptocurrency market grows, the number of online hackers grows, too. News every month says that some bitcoin owners lost their coins online without doing trading or purchasing anything using their bitcoin accounts. Some accounts have been hacked, others...

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Storing cryptocurrencies is easy in theory. The basic way of holding bitcoin involves using private key and public key pairings however private keys are difficult to memorize and store therefore many wallet services provide 12-word mnemonic phrases which enable...

What is the brain wallet?

A Brain wallet is a standard wallet that generates its addresses by hashing a passphrase to create a private key and therefore a public key and result an address. Brain wallets, as apparent from their name, are a type of wallet where...